Apologies for not blogging about the most recent Olympic results particularly the one we care most about, i.e., the race for gold medals between China and the United States. I must admit to being discouraged after I discovered that my blog posts were being stolen. This sapped my enthusiasm to blog. But now that the problem is fixed [the webmaster behind the site agreed to not republish my contents after I contacted him/her and his/her host], let’s continue having fun.
At the end of Day Four of the competitions, China has 13 gold medals while the United States has seven. China appears to be on its way to bagging the number of medals that some crystal ball gazers predicted. In particular Luciano Barra predicted that China will win 38 gold medals while researchers at the Sheffield Hallam University predicted that the host nation will win 46 Olympic gold medals.
Meanwhile, Barra predicted that the United States will win 47 golds; so the Americans have to bag 40 more golds which they can very well do given that we’re still only on the fifth day of the Games. I’m not sure if the Sheffield Hallam folks made a prediction for how many medals U.S. athletes will bring home.
Anyways, as a sort of recap, here’s a listing of the gold medalist from both countries. I hoped to make individual entries for each of them but, as I said earlier, I was derailed by some baddies who, to their credit, responded favorably to my request.
Chinese Gold Medalists [end of day four]
Weightlifting
LONG Qingquan – Men’s 56kg
ZHANG Xiangxiang – Men’s 62kg
LIAO Hui – Men’s 69kg
CHEN Xiexia – Women’s 48kg
CHEN Yanqing – Women’s 58kg
Diving
Women’s Synchronised 3m Springboard
GUO Jingjing, WU Minxia
Men’s Synchronised 10m Platform
LIN Yue, HUO Liang
Women’s Synchronised 10m Platform
WANG Xin, CHEN Ruolin
Fencing
ZHONG Man – Men’s Individual Sabre
Gymnastics
Artistic Men’s Team
[CHEN Yibing, HUANG Xu, LI Xiaopeng, XIAO Qin, YANG Wei, ZOU Kai]
Judo
XIAN Dongmei – Women 52 kg
Shooting
PANG Wei – Men’s 10m Air Pistol
GUO Wenjun – Women’s 10m Air Pistol
American Gold Medalists [end of day four]
Swimming
COUGHLIN Natalie – Women’s 100m Backstroke
PHELPS Michael – Men’s 200m Freestyle
PEIRSOL Aaron – Men’s 100m Backstroke
PHELPS Michael – Men’s 400m Individual Medley
Men’s 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay
[PHELPS Michael, WEBER-GALE Garrett, JONES Cullen, LEZAK Jason, ADRIAN Nathan, WILDMAN-TOBRINER Ben, GREVERS Matt]
Fencing
ZAGUNIS Mariel – Women’s Individual Sabre
Shooting
ELLER Walton – Men’s Double Trap
